We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2007 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/09/too_much_politics.html Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:36:28 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Need gun fix? Here ya go. Click the pic for hi-res. Some STENs and a PPSh 41.... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/09/too_much_politics.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/09/too_much_politics.html Thu, 02 Sep 2004 10:23:01 -0600 John, are those yours? Whomever they belong to, I am jealous. So jealous that I might have to go confess to a priest, even though I am not, in fact, Catholic. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/09/too_much_politics.html#comment-6493 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/09/too_much_politics.html#comment-6493 Fri, 03 Sep 2004 13:45:47 -0600 71 round drum magazine directly copied from the Suomi. That magazine, like the Thompson drum, while providing a lot of firepower, proved slow and cumbersome to load and prone to spring failure after a fairly short time. So the 35 round stick magazine was developed in 1942. The drums continued to be made and issued, even by the chinese, but overall, experienced troops preferred the sticks. ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/09/too_much_politics.html#comment-6485 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/09/too_much_politics.html#comment-6485 Thu, 02 Sep 2004 17:40:56 -0600 John, I thought the PPsh came with a drum magazine of 70-something rounds...when was the banana clip for it used/invented? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/09/too_much_politics.html#comment-6484 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/09/too_much_politics.html#comment-6484 Thu, 02 Sep 2004 17:12:29 -0600 I'll handle that for you. It is, if it hits butt-first. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/09/too_much_politics.html#comment-6483 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/09/too_much_politics.html#comment-6483 Thu, 02 Sep 2004 14:54:35 -0600 throw it into the room. Oh, and make sure you're behind something bullet-resistant. Fortunately, by the time I was issued a sub-machine gun, they'd upgraded to the Stirling SMG instead, so I never had the opportunity to find out if this was actually true from first-hand experience.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/09/too_much_politics.html#comment-6482 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/09/too_much_politics.html#comment-6482 Thu, 02 Sep 2004 14:37:32 -0600 here. ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/09/too_much_politics.html#comment-6478 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/09/too_much_politics.html#comment-6478 Thu, 02 Sep 2004 13:56:21 -0600 And the spike bayonet for an Enfield No. 4, presumably receding out of picture to the left; and one of the Stens has mounted the knife bayonet for the No. 4 ... Cheers JMH http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/09/too_much_politics.html#comment-6474 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/09/too_much_politics.html#comment-6474 Thu, 02 Sep 2004 11:38:57 -0600 Oh, yeah - and a MAT 49, too. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/09/too_much_politics.html#comment-6472 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/09/too_much_politics.html#comment-6472 Thu, 02 Sep 2004 10:31:59 -0600